Winter Break Personality Mask Project and Extra Credit

Personality Mask Project: Unit 10 (Due Wednesday 1/6)

Instructions: Make a full-size face mask decorated on the inside and outside to show who you are on the inside (private self) and on the outside (public self). Decorate with words and imagery from your personality tests, below! Be creative, masks will be displayed!

First, do this personality test!
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm (This is known as a Jung Typology test, or a version of the Myers-Briggs. The Keirsey Temperment Sorter is also similar.)
At the end, it will give you a four-letter code that represents you!

Now go here to get your personality description using the four letter code:
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/Scroll down to the box of four-letter personality type combos, and click on the one you scored in the test you just took.

(Mrs. Herrera is an INFP! What are you?)

You can also look up your code in the fun infographics below, and use this info to add to your Personality Mask project:

general http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798333628833/
your social media type http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798332721081/
your college major  http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798332358214/
what star Wars character you're like http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798330889070/
what Disney character you're like http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798330889068/
what celebrity you're like http://www.pinterest.com/pin/548594798330365710/ 

Other personality tests you can take for your Personality Mask:

• another Myers-Briggs type test to confirm your results at: http://www.kisa.ca/personality/
• Fun personality test: http://www.personalitytest.net/funtest/index.htm 
• Classics in the History of Psych: http://psychclassics.asu.edu/index.htm
• Personality Project: http://fas.psych.nwu.edy/personality.html
• Various Personality Tests about love and such: http://www.2h.com/Tests/personality.phtml
• Implicit Associations Test: http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html orhttps://implicit.harvard.edu/

Extra Credit Book or Movie Review

Check back for extra credit info :)

Midterm Essay Prep!

Dear AP Psych Scholar,

I will choose one of the three Free Response Questions below to be on your midterm.  Prepare an answer for all three and you will gain valuable info for both the essay and the multiple choice parts of the exam!

                                                                                                                                                -Mrs. H

P.S.

If you have any questions, just ask!  Also, remember the tips we discussed regarding how to answer Free Response Questions, and read carefully…

QUESTION #1

Jen and her group of friends attended the Homecoming game.  Each of them had a shirt with a different letter, so that when they stood together, it spelled out “Stranahan.”  They screamed loudly throughout the game to cheer on the football team, the cheerleaders, and the band.  Stranahan beat Fort Lauderdale, and the friends celebrated.  Explain how each of the following concepts is related to the students’ experiences at the game.

(Your actual exam question will only have 7 of the following 14 terms.)

·         Broca’s area

·         Gestalt principal of similarity

·         Sympathetic nervous system

·         Beta waves

·         Hindsight bias

·         Occipital lobes

·         Cones

·         Motor cortex

·         Cochlea

·         Episodic memory

·         Figure-ground

·         Selective attention

·         Auditory cortex

·         Hippocampus

QUESTION #2

Researchers conducted a naturalistic study of children between the ages of 5 and 7 years. The researchers visited classrooms during class party celebrations. As a measure of hyperactivity, they recorded the number of times children left their seats. The researchers found a strong positive correlation between sugary snacks offered at the parties and hyperactivity. Based on these findings, the researchers concluded that sugar causes hyperactivity.

A.      How might the following explain why people may easily accept the conclusion of the study described above?

·          Confirmation bias

·         Misunderstanding of correlational studies

B.       As a follow-up study, the researchers are designing an experiment to test whether sugar causes hyperactivity.  For the experiment, please do the following.

·          State a possible hypothesis.

·          Operationally define the dependent variable.

·         Describe how random assignment can be achieved.

C.       Based on the results of the follow-up experiment described in Part B, researchers conclude that sugar does not cause any change in hyperactivity.

·         Draw a correctly labeled bar graph depicting this result.

QUESTION #3

Time is an important variable in many psychological concepts. Describe a specific example that clearly demonstrates an understanding of each of the following concepts and how it relates to or is affected by time. Use a different example for each concept.

·         Critical period

·         Fluid intelligence

·         Refractory period in neural firing

·         Sound localization

·         Afterimage Effect

·         Proactive interferenc

-      REM rebound

AP Psych Midterm December 2015

So, what do you need to know for the midterm? EVERYTHING! Bust out those index flashcards you've made for the each unit! But just to help you out, below are a few helpful review items...

The midterm will be 100 multiple choice questions (approximately 10 per chapter) and a free response question with 10 vocab terms. There will be prep for the free response in class on Monday 12/14.


Neurotransmitter Chart
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYxdTlrmZTl3ZGR4dnE3dHpfMTZmOTZzd2Zucg&hl=en


Pun List Famous Psychologists
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYxdTlrmZTl3ZGR4dnE3dHpfMTdkd25qY21jOQ&hl=en



Here are a few names to review...


Hawthorne Effect = Showed that factory workers had improved work performance with both improved and poor lighting. Conclusion was that they improved simply because they were being observed in the experiment.



Roger Sperry = The first to propose "split-brain surgery" to help epileptic patients.



Jean Piaget = Proposed four stages of cognitive development. (Remember the acronym Socks Pulled Over Cold Feet to remember these in order.) Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete, and Formal Stages.



Erik Erikson = Proposed eight stages of psychosocial development. (KNOW THESE!!)



Lawrence Kohlberg = Proposed three stages of MORAL development. (all framed around the word conventional.) This theory was criticized as it only tested young children by framing hypothetical situations for them and their responses to these. It did not test cross-culturally and between the genders.



Konrad Lorentz = Imprinting studies. Showed how baby animals would follow the first object they saw after birth. Believed to be a built-in survival mechanism.



Jerome Kagan = Studies to indicate that in-born temperament may explain many behaviors.



Harry Harlow = Showed importance of physical touch over nourishment in infant monkeys.



Mary Ainsworth = Secure infants have good bonds with mothers. Reverse is also true.



Elenor Gibson = The "visual cliff experiment". Showed that depth perception cues are innate.



Hubel and Weisel = Studies with monkeys to show that they had specific FEATURE DECECTORS to aid them in visual processing. (Some for lines, bars, edges, shapes, etc.)



Ernest Hilgard = Studies showing that a hypnotic trance includes a "hidden observer' suggesting that there is some subconscious control during hypnosis.



Ivan Pavlov = Famous for his classical conditioning experiments.



Robert Rescorla = Proposed that there is conscious connection between the CS and the DCS in classical conditioning experiments. (A smoker is aware that a nausea-producing drug will affect his behavior.)



John B. Watson = Famous for the controversial Little Albert classical conditioning experiment.



B.F. Skinner = Famous for me "Skinner Box to demonstrate operant conditioning in low level animals.



Albert Bandura = “Bo-Bo Doll" Experiment to demonstrate how children imitate anti-social behavior.

Confusing Pairs
Here are some terms that sound alike but mean different things. Review them!

Independent Variable (What is tested) vs. Dependent Variable (What is measured)
(Ex: Recess to test attention span; recess is independent, attention span is dependent)

Random selection (of subjects for a study) vs. Random Assignment (of subjects to experimental or control groups in a study)

Experimental Group (group that is tested) vs. Control Group (compared to the experimental, i.e. receives the placebo in a drug experiment.)

Left Brain (Language and Logic) vs. Right Brain (Creative and Spatial)

Corpus Callosum (divides the brain) vs. Cerebral Cortex (covers the brain)

Sympathetic Nervous System ("flight-or-fight") vs. Parasympathetic (calming)

Neurotransmitters (in the nervous system) vs. Hormones (in the endocrine system)

Broca's Area (makes words) vs. Wernicke’s Area (comprehends words)

Identical Twins (Same fertilized egg) vs. Fraternal Twins (Two separate eggs)

Afferent Neurons (Sensory, body to the brain) vs. Efferent Neurons Motor, brain to the body)

Assimilation (All four-legged animals are "doggies") vs. Accommodation ("Doggies are different than "Kitties")

Concrete Operations (logical thinking) vs. Formal Operations (Philosophical thinking)

Sensation (Bottom-up Processing) vs. Perception (Top-Down Processing)

Rods (night vision) vs. Cones (color vision)

Classical Conditioning (Involuntary) vs. Operant Conditioning (Voluntary)

Positive Reinforcement (any reward following a desirable behavior that increases the behavior) vs. Negative Reinforcement (ending “time-out” for bad behavior in playtime increases good behavior in playtime)

Primacy Effect (first items remembered) vs. Recency Effect (last items remembered)

Proactive Interference (loss of the new info) vs. Retroactive Interference (loss of the old info)

Implicit Memory (nondeclarative; skills) vs. Explicit Memory (declarative, facts)

Recall Memory (no cues/fill-in) vs. Recognition Memory (Some hints/multiple choice, matching)

Classwork Unit 5

1. Watch tutorial EEG and sleep stages at worthpublishers.com/myersap1e.

2. Create an infographic to share that illustrates the five dream theories.
Put your dream in the middle and the five theories with explanations around it. May be on paper or digital. Use dreammoods.com for freud's wish fulfillment theory.

Sensation and Perception Fun Stuff and Study Tools for TOMORROW'S TEST!

Unit 4 Sensation Perception Test is tomorrow, 12/2!  Log in to your textbook on BEEP and do the two practice quizzes for Unit 4. Also, Here are some links to help you get ready. 

My slides for this unit:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3YVIzU0FuUzI5RHc/edit?usp=sharing

Darren Brown's official YouTube Channel (for if you want to learn some mind control tricks) https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialDerren

Here are some fun links that relate to your unit, including a cochlear implant demo, a test to see if you have synesthesia, and an NPR story about the taste of umami:

http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=2112990

The Philip Zimbardo video I showed part of in class, which starts with the Ames Room illusion: http://www.learner.org/series/discoveringpsychology/07/e07expand.html

And here is a YouTube Playlist I have going for this unit: